"Don't be a hamster.";) "Of course I'm not. I'm a future billionaire. After all, I dropped out of college too. Like Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg." "Did you? Like I said..."
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Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Equal is never equal for a foreign born American!
While this is of course field specific, we have to recognize that competing on "equal" grounds with an American worker is never equal for the foreign born worker. An H1b visa seeker or holder didn't go to K-12 in English and doesn't share a high school graduation ring with his or her white male American old boys network counterpart. "Equal" always handicaps by far the foreign born competitor. She reads in English and tests in English. In their advanced degree they could not wait tables or bartend. Nor could they adjunct teach at the neighboring community college. Her child comes home bullied at school because she has an accent still. Isn't this the story grandma or grandpa had to live through in their time to make a better life for mom and dad and us? We approve then about the past as it benefits us and fail to see the connections with the colleague born abroad whom we oppose today? How then could we call ourselves American?:)
The good news? We have perseverance. America is built on it. So is the world. Lazy people seeking protectionism usually are swiped off by market swings ahead.. Let's just look at history... Someone Syrian who made obsolete the CD player?;) Remember him? The Russian inventor of the President's helicopter Marine One? Iranian inventor of hot pockets? Should we go on?
Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
From Sun Tzu through Nicolo Machiavelli and much beyond, aren't we forgetting something?
I love it that we recognize the value of old great wisdom to show us the way to eliminate anchors to innovation. I wonder though if what is best and yet we may be missing isn't even older still, predating even language itself. We humans cannot create a system that escapes natural laws. Understanding that shall force us to learn from nature in all that we create anew. At their core organizations ultra-simplified are binomial at most. Could we find origin of anchors to innovation even inside the underutilization of cooperation and conflict inside a simple dyad? Better yet, can the anchor be inside just one pole of the dyad? We (each of us) are our own innovation enemy, are we not?;) If only we could see it well enough... One time long ago I saw an experiment in biology about plants speaking to each other using measurable field activity. Meanwhile we use language which often fails us. Ignoring all too often dialogues of many of the great much before us--plants, dolphins, whales etc., not to mention dinosaurs and plenty of other life of times immemorial... even in the simplest thing like data recording and replicating nature beats us by far, with DNA, while our own impertinence about our "progress" is of course laughable.
Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
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